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CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s electoral board said it was the only body allowed to reform referendum rules governing removal of the country’s president, throwing cold water on opposition plans to recall President Nicolas Maduro amid an economic crisis.

(Reuters) – Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant yesterday signed a far-reaching law allowing people with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and protecting other actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Police are advising that they will be strictly enforcing the laws relating to how close to Gordon House persons can gather for next week’s State Opening of Parliament.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – West Indies T20 cricket captain Darren Sammy Tuesday expressed his delight at the decision of the St.

NEW DELHI, India,  CMC- Cricket columnist Mark Nicholas has apologised to West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy and his side for describing them as “short of brains” before the start of the T20 World Cup.

Transparency Institute Guyana Inc today said that the actions of Minister of State Joseph Harmon in relation to the employing and rewarding of supporters and donors constitutes corruption.

(Trinidad Guardian) Desperate because they are unable to pay home mortgages and vehicle loans, over 100 former ArcelorMittal employees overpowered security guards as they stormed the Point Lisas plant yesterday, demanding answers about their pension and savings plan.

Better Hope goldsmith Richard Ramjit will today appear in court to answer charges in connection with his gold and silver jewellery which was seized by the Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) in January at the airport.

A forty-four-year-old woman is currently battling for her life at a city hospital after she was stabbed about her body on Sunday evening by her husband who took his own life.

Two persons, including the daughter of Nonpareil pensioner Roger Manikam, were detained by the police yesterday on suspicions that they are linked to his murder, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum said.

The governing APNU+AFC on Friday took all seven of the seats on the city’s key Finance Committee despite the nomination of a Team Legacy member who was backed by other groups elected to the council.

Seeking to pioneer new ground in the development of the small business sector, the Institute of Private Enterprise Development Limited (IPED) has set aside half a billion to support non-traditional agriculture, ventures by persons under 30 and the creative industries over the next two years.

Brazilian and Barbadian companies are among five bidders for rehabilitation work on the Moco-Moco Hydropower plant in Region Nine.

Four candidates, all of whom are Guyanese, have been shortlisted to be interviewed for the vacant post of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG).

The University of Guyana Students’ Society (UGSS) yesterday staged a protest at the Turkeyen Campus to highlight poor conditions that they say continue to be ignored.

The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group is working towards creating a missing persons database.

Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels was once again accused by an inmate as being the authority who passed an instruction for the door to the burning Capital Division at the camp Street prison to be shut on March 3, when 17 prisoners died.

The Supreme Court has advertised for temporary magistrates in the wake of initiatives aimed at easing the backlog of cases and overcrowding in the prisons.

There have been no reports of piracy in the first quarter of the year and the police have credited this to the resuscitation of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Piracy and the Inter-Agency Maritime Surveillance Programme.

As police continue to investigate two murders they believe are linked and were committed as acts of reprisal during last week, they were yesterday granted an additional 72 hours to detain two of the four suspects who were arrested, while the other two have been released.